Carmelo Anthony shares Kobe Bryant 'war' story in front of Lakers legend's birthday 

Carmelo Anthony on Saturday inspected his epic "fight' with Kobe Bryant during the 2009 Western Conference Finals when his Denver Nuggets played the Los Angeles Lakers. 

Anthony, who as of late endorsed with the Lakers in the offseason, disclosed to Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on the "All The Smoke" webcast he and Bryant turned out to be close even before the 2008 Olympics.

"The best, man," Anthony said of the Lakers legend

The best, man," Anthony said of the Lakers legend

 "That was my subsequent where I and Kob became – before that we went to the Olympics. We turned out to be exceptionally close. Yet, we turned out to be close on some discourteous s—. You know Kob, he going into your neck. He elbowing you. I had my interlaces in those days, as well, so he contacting my head. I'm similar to, 'Don't contact my head. Try not to contact me no more, dawg.' He's grinning. He's tossing his little s—t elbows, and '09 came, and it resembled, I recollect that we embraced before the game, and he resembled, 'It's conflict.' I said, 'It's conflict. We should get it. It ain't going to be not much,'" Anthony said. 

 Also, I basically review him prompting me, 'I'll watch you in the fourth. They ain't going to settle on no decisions on me. They ain't going to call no s—t on me in the fourth.' And I used to attempt to thump him, however. I was greater than him, so I used to attempt to thump him, be physical with him. He returns, elbows me. I return, elbow him. He giggling, talking, 'That is all you got?'" 

The Lakers crushed the Nuggets that year in six games. The Lakers would go onto win the NBA Finals that season – the first since the group exchanged Shaquille O'Neal. 

In the meeting finals, Bryant found the middle value of 34 focuses per game and Anthony arrived at the midpoint of 27.5 focuses per game.